Exploring Aural Navigation by Screenless Access

Gross, Mikaylah; Dara, Joe; Meyer, Christopher; Bolchini, Davide

doi:10.1145/3192714.3192815

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“…The majority of IA research has focused on the design and evaluation of websites, but some has explored other domains. For example, IA has been used in the design of usable security tools [14], as the basis of a semantic web structuring tool [7,8,15], to investigate the accessibility, use and reuse of information across multiple devices [40], to evaluate different information visualization tools [33], and for mobile applications screen-reader navigation [19,67]. One body of research has compared IA to other attributes of information sites.…”

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How to Debug Inclusivity Bugs? A Debugging Process with Information Architecture

Guizani,

Steinmacher,

Emard

et al. 2022

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Although some previous research has found ways to find inclusivity bugs (biases in software that introduce inequities), little attention has been paid to how to go about fixing such bugs. Without a process to move from finding to fixing, acting upon such findings is an ad-hoc activity, at the mercy of the skills of each individual developer. To address this gap, we created Why/Where/Fix, a systematic inclusivity debugging process whose inclusivity fault localization harnesses Information Architecture(IA)-the way user-facing information is organized, structured and labeled. We then conducted a multi-stage qualitative empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of Why/Where/Fix, using an Open Source Software (OSS) project's infrastructure as our setting. In our study, the OSS project team used the Why/Where/Fix process to find inclusivity bugs, localize the IA faults behind them, and then fix the IA to remove the inclusivity bugs they had found. Our results showed that using Why/Where/Fix reduced the number of inclusivity bugs that OSS newcomer participants experienced by 90%.

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Section: Background and Related Work 21 Information Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

How to Debug Inclusivity Bugs? A Debugging Process with Information Architecture

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Steinmacher,

Emard

et al. 2022

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“…with both concrete and abstract categories. Gross et al [36] designed and evaluated a non screen-centric aural navigation paradigm for vision impaired users. This study introduced a binary dichotomic aural information navigation scheme that leverages topical, usage based and user defined organizational scheme.…”

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A Decade of Information Architecture in HCI: A Systematic Literature Review

Guizani¹

2022

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Information Architecture (IA) is a blueprint for the information system in websites or other information-rich environments. It corresponds to how we organize, label and structure information. The importance of Information Architecture and its influence on a system's usability is vastly discussed in literature.Because of the inherent connection between Information Architecture concepts and the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) field, we decided to investigate how previous research has used Information Architecture in the context of Human Computer Interaction (IAinHCI).In order to do that, we followed a two phase process. First, we conducted a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). We queried both the ACM and IEEE databases. We filtered and assessed 311 papers that spanned a decade of research on Information Architecture. We found 25 papers that utilized Information Architecture in the context of Human Computer Interaction. Then, we followed a Background Reference Search process using the SLR resulting papers as a starting set. We assessed the eligibility of the reference list of all 25 papers and found eight additional papers that were relevant to our research question.Results of our review show that, IAinHCI papers fall under seven main categories, from IoT to the semantic web and ubiquitous technology. The website category, however, was both the most consistent over the years and the most prevalent category accounting for 67% of the papers. Our findings suggest that IA has not yet uncovered its full potential and there is still room for research to leverage and expend the IA knowledge base promising a prosperous future for Information Architecture.

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Beyond screen and voice

Gross

Bolchini

2018

SIGACCESS Access. Comput.

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The current interaction paradigm to access the mobile web forces people who are blind to hold out their phone at all times, thus increasing the risk for the device to fall or be robbed. Moreover, such continuous, two-handed interaction on a small screen hampers the ability of people who are blind to keep their hands free to control aiding devices (e.g., cane) or touch objects nearby, especially on-the-go. To investigate alternative paradigms, we are exploring and reifying strategies for "screenless access": a browsing approach that enables users to interact touch-free with aural navigation architectures using one-handed, in-air gestures recognized by an off-the-shelf armband. In this article, we summarize key highlights from an exploratory study with ten participants who are blind or visually impaired who experienced our screenless access prototype. We observed proficient navigation performance after basic training, users conceptual fit with a screen-free paradigm, and low levels of cognitive load, notwithstanding the errors and limits of the design and system proposed. The full paper appeared in W4A2018 [1].

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Exploring Aural Navigation by Screenless Access

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

How to Debug Inclusivity Bugs? A Debugging Process with Information Architecture

How to Debug Inclusivity Bugs? A Debugging Process with Information Architecture

A Decade of Information Architecture in HCI: A Systematic Literature Review

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